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Hosted by the Computer Science Teachers Association and the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, the K-12 Computing Teachers Workshop is a two-day event for K-12 teachers, covering challenges and ways to involve more girls in computer science.
The gender pay gap in the United States tech industry is the divergence in pay between men and women who work in areas such as software engineering. [1] In 2018, reports show that for every dollar the average man made, women only made 82 cents, and women from underrepresented communities earn even less. [ 2 ]
AnitaB.org (formerly Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, and Institute for Women in Technology) is a global nonprofit organization based in Belmont, California. [2] Founded by computer scientists Anita Borg and Telle Whitney , the institute's primary aim is to recruit, retain, and advance women in technology.
The National Center for Women & Information Technology aims to help create both academic and work environments that are welcoming and fair for women. In their research, encouragement is one of the key elements to help women enter a primarily male-dominated field. [103]
The Women in Technology International (WITI) is a global organization dedicated to the advancement of women in business and technology. [231] The Arab Women in Computing has many chapters across the world and focuses on encouraging women to work with technology and provides networking opportunities between industry experts and academicians and ...
The Association for Computing Machinery's Council on Women in Computing (ACM-W) supports, celebrates, and advocates internationally for the full engagement of women in all aspects of the computing field, providing a wide range of programs and services to ACM members and working in the larger community to advance the contributions of technical women.
Women Who Code (WWCode) was an international non-profit organization that provides services for women pursuing technology careers and a job board [2] for companies seeking coding professionals. The company aims to provide an avenue into the technology world by evaluating and assisting women in developing technical skills.
In 2015, annual Girls in ICT Day events recorded about 177,000 girls around the world through over 5,300 events in more than 150 countries. [1] By 2022, International Telecommunication Union data showed that more than 3,62,000 girls and young women have celebrated more than 11,000 celebrations in 171 countries worldwide during the International Girls in ICT Day.